Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-07-03 Thread Ben Scott
One more data point in this sea of uncertainty: Still running OpenWRT 0.9 (White Russian) on my home LinkSys router. I got the DynDNS hostname about to expire message today. Logging in to the router, I found ez-ipupdate simply wasn't running. No idea why. Uptime is 28 days. I started it

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-19 Thread John Abreau
OK, I had assumed cable and DSL modems behaved the same. My DSL modem has a static internal IP address, and transparently handles the external dynamic address. The only way I've been able to detect the external address from a script is to ssh to an external shell account and then look at what

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/15/07, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, June 15, 2007 11:03 am, Thomas Charron said: On 6/15/07, Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, that gives the IP address of this machine, not the IP address of the router ... *Pt* White Russian runs on the router. :-)

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing and configuring ez-ipupdate, all through the webif^2 UI, there WAS no /etc/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate.conf on my filesystem. FWIW, I just did an install of OpenWRT 0.9 and X-WRT on a friend's LinkSys WRT54GS v1.1 router.

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, logging into the DynDNS UI is an easy way to manage my DynDNS entries. The whole point of installing OpenWRT/ez-ipupdate (with which fact I opened my initial post on this subject) was to avoid having to do this by automating the

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread Cole Tuininga
We do have a page specifically for clients that are compliant to our protocol. The UNIX specific client page is: http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/unix.html I asked our client certification guy what he would recommend for OpenWRT and he suggested the inadyn client. -- Cole Tuininga

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:42:28 -0400 From: Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been using zonedit and a cronjob script to check if my router's IP changed. It's got some old cruft in it. Please, please, please, folks! Don't even THINK about doing stuff like this. (Newbies, cover your eyes!)

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 11:03 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: On 6/15/07, Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, that gives the IP address of this machine, not the IP address of the router, which, given that it's IP address might change, is quite likely doing address translation before

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/15/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/15/07, Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, that gives the IP address of this machine, not the IP address of the router, which, given that it's IP address might change, is quite likely doing address translation before

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:42:28 -0400 From: Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been using zonedit and a cronjob script to check if my router's IP changed. It's got some old cruft in it. Please, please, please, folks! Don't even THINK

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Ryan
(sorry, meant to send this to the list) On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:42:28 -0400 From: Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been using zonedit and a cronjob script to check if my router's IP changed. It's got some old cruft in it.

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread John Abreau
On Fri, June 15, 2007 11:03 am, Thomas Charron said: On 6/15/07, Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, that gives the IP address of this machine, not the IP address of the router, which, given that it's IP address might change, is quite likely doing address translation before

FiOS and MythTV? WAS: Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread VirginSnow
FiOS uses another brand (Acctron?). It's got an IP to coax connector for IPTV. Each TV set top box on coax has an IP address (192.168.1.100 and up) Hm. Do you think it'd be possible to use this as a signal source for a MythTV box? brain.gears[0].setMotion(new Motion.turning());

Re: FiOS and MythTV? WAS: Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FiOS uses another brand (Acctron?). It's got an IP to coax connector for IPTV. Each TV set top box on coax has an IP address (192.168.1.100 and up) Hm. Do you think it'd be possible to use this as a signal source for a MythTV box?

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-14 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:49:07 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenWRT was recommended as a way of getting around using Linksys's broken DynDNS client. But this system seems just as broken! I suspect something *is*

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem here seems to be that the ez-ipupdate package is integrated with neither the webif nor the rest of OpenWRT. Hmmm. It was better than that for me. Have you installed the X-WRT extensions to OpenWRT? The webif^2 subsystem is

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-14 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:05:37 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem here seems to be that the ez-ipupdate package is integrated with neither the webif nor the rest of OpenWRT. Hmmm. It was better than that for me.

Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-05-14 Thread VirginSnow
Per Ben's recommendation, after last month's SLUG talk on OpenWRT, I upgraded my Linksys box to White Russian 0.9. I installed ez-ipupdate and configured it with my DynDNS settings in webif^2 (the spiffy hot rod web interface recommended by the same). And... this morning, my DynDNS hosname

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-05-14 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:22:02 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interestingly, the box reports the current time as its uptime: # date; uptime Mon May 14 09:18:51 EDT 2007 09:18:51 up 21:16, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 *blink* Duh. That IS the date. Too early for network emergencies.

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-05-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # date; uptime Mon May 14 09:18:51 EDT 2007 09:18:51 up 21:16, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 The system's uptime and date (which is synchronized with an NTP server) appear identical - to the second. Could it be that this is preventing the DynDNS daemon from

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-05-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 5/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenWRT was recommended as a way of getting around using Linksys's broken DynDNS client. But this system seems just as broken! I suspect something *is* broken in the OpenWRT DDNS subsystem. But I was able to get the symptom (i.e.,

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-05-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On May 14, 2007, at 09:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And... this morning, my DynDNS hosname expired. :( I had the same problem on older versions of DD-WRT. Perhaps they share a client. The update logic was wrong there if your DHCP address didn't change over the course of a month. White